Installation

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Install Fresh of Edocman

After purchasing Edocman, you will receive the edocman_unzip_first.zip package. You should extract package edocman_unzip_first.zip before you can install file com_edocman.zip. Edocman allows you to install all (components, modules, plugins, languages) from that package, if you want to integrate Edocman with Amazon S3, you can install plugin: plug_edocman_amazon.zip, this plugin is over 2MB, so we don't include it into Edocman package. There are 2 normal options to install Edocman package:

Option 1 - Upload Package File

Login to the back-end of your site, go to Extensions -> Manager, click on Upload Package File tab, browse to Edocman main package (com_edocman.zip), then click on Upload & Install button to install.

Option 2 - Install from Folder

First, you must manually upload and extract the Edocman main package to a folder on your Joomla site via FTP or Control Panel of your website hosting (example /tmp/com_edocman folder) After that, login to the back-end of your site, go to Extensions -> Manager, click on Install from Folder tab, at Install Folder, enter the full path (the path from the root folder of your site) to the /tmp/com_edocman, then slick on Install button to install.

Other items

1. plug_edocman_amazon.zip
This plugin allows you to store Edocman documents on Amazon S3 storage. You can install it through Joomla Installation manager tool.
2. plug_edocman_indexer.zip
Edocman Indexer plugin is used to index and store content of Edocman documents. You can install it through Joomla Installation manager tool.
3. falang_elements.zip
Falang Elements contains XML elements files of Edocman. You need those files to integrate Edocman with Falang extension. Please extract compress files and copy .xml files into directory: root > administrator > components > com_falang > contentelements directory.
4. plug_sh404sefextplugins_edocman.zip This plugin is used to integrate Edocman with Sh404sef extension. You can install it through Joomla Installation manager tool.

Upgrade Edocman

Once Edocman has been released under a new version, in the Dashboard of Edocman, you will see a notification update message to tell you about that.

Simply go to our website, login and click on My Downloads link on the top menu to download the latest version of Edocman from there.

To upgrade Edocman, you just need to install the latest version of Edocman same as the New Installation. Please note that:

  1. Please don't uninstall old version before installing new version. It is not needed. Further more, if you uninstall the old version before upgrading, you will lost all of store's data that you created before.
  2. The upgrading will not make any effects to the Configuration parameters or documents data so the Configuration parameters or documents data is still there after upgrading.
  3. Before upgrading, you should make a backup copy of your site so that in case something goes wrong (for any reasons), you can roll back to earlier status. We suggest you to install Akeeba Backup extension and make a backup of your site before upgrading.